{"id":293511,"date":"2026-05-14T21:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:36:29","slug":"how-texas-triangle-cities-are-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293511\/","title":{"rendered":"How Texas Triangle Cities are Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Texas is king when it comes to growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Updated Census Bureau numbers released Wednesday include lots of good news for people betting on Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s continued rise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, Fort Worth<\/a> cracked the top 10 list. Cowtown, after inching up to the 11th-largest American city last year, is now in the number 10 spot with a population of 1.03 million. After surpassing Austin in population in 2025, it remains the fourth-largest city in Texas, behind Houston (2.4 million), San Antonio (1.5 million) and Dallas (1.3 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fort Worth added 19,512 residents between mid-2024 and mid-2025, the second-largest numerical increase among cities with populations of 20,000 people or more. Of the top 10 cities on this list, six were in Texas. The other five cities are:\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Antonio ranked third, adding 14,359 people;\u00a0<\/p>\n

Celina, a north Dallas suburb, ranked fourth, adding 12,710;\u00a0<\/p>\n

Houston ranked fifth, adding 11,515;\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fulshear, a Houston suburb, came in seventh, adding 11,196; and<\/p>\n

McKinney, another north Dallas suburb ranked 10th, adding 8,504.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the five Texas Triangle metros, Austin ranked fourth<\/a> in terms of numerical growth, adding 4,025 people. Dallas was the only city to lose population; its count fell by 1,808.\u00a0<\/p>\n

North Texas also dominated the list of cities with populations of 20,000 or more ranked by percentage increase in population. Celina, a town of 64,427 people about 40 miles north of Downtown Dallas, reclaimed the title of fastest-growing city in the country from neighbor Princeton<\/a>. Between July 2024 and July 2025, the town grew by 24.6 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Developers are hard at work building housing for all those people. The growth has translated to booming business for legendary landman Rex Glendenning<\/a>, who is in the process of developing the 3,200-acre Legacy Hills<\/a>, 600-acre King Place and 150-acre Shawnee Trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 34 years, I\u2019ve been buying green bananas up here, and now they\u2019ve ripened up a little bit,\u201d Glendenning told the Dallas Business Journal in late 2024. His family has been living in Celina since the 1880s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Celina, Fulshear comes in second, with a 21 percent jump in population. Princeton, Melissa, Anna and Forney are ranked third, fourth, fifth and eighth, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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